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In a three-month period this year, health care workers at Bergen Regional Medical Center LP in Paramus were victims of violent patients in eight incidents, including one in which a nurse suffered a laceration and bruises attempting to stop an attack on a patient. Following a worker's complaint, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health ...

The 2015 European Week for Safety and Health at Work, a highlight of the ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress Campaign’, starts on 19 October. Events will be held across Europe to mark the occasion and put stress and psychosocial risks in the workplace in the spotlight. The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) and its network of partners aim to get Europe talking ...

Good afternoon and thank you for joining me. I am Dr. David Michaels and it is my great honor to announce OSHA's final rule expanding requirements for employers to notify OSHA when a worker is killed on the job, or suffers a work related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The new rule also updates the list of employers partially exempt from OSHA recordkeeping requirements. These new ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Integra Health Management of Owings Mills, Md., with two violations following an incident in December 2012 when a service coordinator was fatally stabbed in Dade City by a patient in front of the patient's home. The employee was meeting the patient for a required face-to-face hospitalization risk assessment. ...

Last month, OSHA announced that agency investigators would increase their focus on a set of new key hazards for the healthcare industry during upcoming inspections. These hazards will aim to address musculoskeletal disorders related to patient or resident handling; blood borne pathogens; workplace violence; tuberculosis and slips, trips ...

Employees of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn were exposed to head, eye, face and groin injuries and intimidation and threats during routine interactions with patients and visitors. The employer failed to protect employees adequately against workplace violence, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's ...

Hospitals are safe places to work - right? Well, maybe not. US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2014 (the most recent year published) show that total recordable case rate for hospitals (injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers) is 6.2. The hospital injury rate is higher ...

Association for the Healthcare Environment Joins 3M and Founding Partners in OneTogether Movement to Fight HAIs Collaborative effort to improve patient safety gains momentum April 26, 2013 — ST. PAUL, Minn. — 3M™ and its founding partners are proud to announce that The Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) of the American Hospital Association is joining OneTogether: ...

In the past, employers under the federal jurisdiction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were required to report all workplace fatalities and when three or more workers were hospitalized in the same incident. This all changed on January 1st of this year when new OSHA reporting requirements went into effect. As of ...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a final rule* requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The rule, which also updates the list of ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued an updated National Emphasis Program on Amputations. The NEP has been in existence since 2006 and is targeted to industries with high numbers and rates of amputations. In this updated NEP, OSHA is ...

Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX) today announced that it is in the process of conducting a voluntary recall involving Grab ‘n Go Vantage portable oxygen cylinder units. Praxair is making a minor modification to the affected units as they come in for routine servicing and filling. Praxair has already communicated with its customers and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Praxair initiated this ...

Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in New York has agreed to implement and maintain a comprehensive program to safeguard its employees better against assaults and other on-the-job violence after a patient assaulted a nurse at the Brooklyn facility in 2014. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI), the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), jointly announced today the launch of "The Silent Killer" educational campaign aimed at raising awareness of the duty-related dangers of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and reducing the known risk factors that unnecessarily kill or injure fire fighters each year. ...

Until 2000, Streptococcus pneumoniae infections caused 100,000-135,000 hospitalizations for pneumonia, 6 million cases of ear infections, and 60,000 cases of invasive disease, including 3300 cases of meningitis. Disease figures have improved since a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine was introduced in 2001. Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, is a type of ...

Health Care Without Harm strongly opposed the passage in the House today of one a bill intended to weaken the EPA's ability to protect the nation's air supply under the Clean Air Act. H.R. 2681, passed today by the House, would delay new EPA emissions restrictions on air pollutants from cement plants. The bill blocks regulations that would reduce significantly the amount of mercury ...

The following article was written by Thomas R. Krause, co-founder and Chairman of the Board of BST, a leading safety performance consulting firm based in Ojai, California. A failure of leadership led to the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing 11 workers and releasing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, senior executive leaders ...

BJ's Charitable Foundation announced today that it has donated $591,600 to 79 nonprofits that focus on providing services in the form of hunger prevention, self-sufficiency, health care or education to those in need that reside in the communities BJ's serves. "Not only is BJ's Wholesale Club extremely proud to serve our Members, the company believes it's equally important to support the ...

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